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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael darry Show is on the.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Air, and I'm telling you that if you don't get
away from the green energy scam, your country is going
to fail. That the stall out, waiting for the fall
out all formal note in the Rocky Mountain.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
With time, the planet has a fever. If your baby
has a fever, you go to the doctor. Now say
the evidence is unequivocal. One hundred and fifty years ago
this year was the discovery that CO two traps heat.
That is a principle in physics. It's not a question
(01:01):
of debate. Is like gravity, it exists.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Stop stop.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
People are familiar with that thin blue line that the
astronauts bring back in their pictures from space. That's the
part of the atmosphere that has oxygen, the troposphere, and
it's only five to seven kilometers thick. That's what we're
using as an open sewer. If you could drive a
car straight up in the air at interstate highway speeds,
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you get to the top of that blue line in
five minutes and all the greenhouse gas pollution would be
below you. We're still putting one hundred and sixty two
million tons into it every single day, and the accumulated
amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would
be released by six hundred thousand herosima class atomic bombs
exploding every single day on the Earth.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Storm out out, the stall out.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
That's what's boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers and
the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land,
and creating the droughts and melting the ice and raising
the sea level and causing these waves of climate refugees
predicted to reach one billion in this century. Look at
the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from
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just a few million refugees. What about a billion? We
would lose our capacity for self governance on this world.
We have to act.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
Storm out, waiting for the fall out, the lucky bout winter.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
While it is true, true that we have this sustainability
revolution underway, and it's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
It has the magnitude of the.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Industrial revolution but the speed of the digital revolution. But
we're still not changing fast enough because it's not just
the scientific community warning us now, it's Mother Nature. Every
night on the TV news is like a nature hike
through the Book of Revelation.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And erased them. Said, the less talent they have, the
more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however,
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find other fools who applaud them. Somehow, some way, al
Gore keeps keeping on closer to home. A loss for
lame duck Lena Hidalgo and Rodney Ellis as the Harrison
County Court approves a two point seven billion dollar budget
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in a three to two vote. The minority in this
case was Lena Hidalgo and Rodney Ellis, Leslie Brionis, Tom
Ramsey and Adrian Garcia banding together to realize we can
run the county if we just vote together. Then Lena
then begins to whind. She is very upset. She's trying
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to do this by that children, and y'all want to
give her all this money for the children. The story
from Oh, here's here's the raw audio of her thank
you for coming down here.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Just say, if we're in a situation where we can't
afford jay web and other essential services, and we really
have a spending problem, that's what it is, yep.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
And right supposed this problem. So what's the solution, colleagues,
if it's your budget, if.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
You're asking, if you're asking the speaker a question, let
the speaker.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
I didn't ask a question. I'm just saying it's their budget,
so they've got the spending problem. I didn't propose this budget.
I did not propose an unbalanced budget that will had
a two hundred million dollar deficit. That's their budget, and
they're already cutting all the children's programs. It's like sport
for them, including the folks that brag about having kids.
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So the spending problem, Sheriff, it belongs to the three
people that are proposing this budget. Okay, sorry, I'm next
in the queue to speak.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Sheriff Gonzalez, thank you for being here.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's not nice that it's actually cruel that this woman
who's in a state, a mannicked state, is having an
episode in public out. It's it's not good, that's not
it's just, but it is funnykhou with the story that
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Harris County passed the budget, it wasn't the budget that
Lena and Rodney wanted.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Harris County passing its budget after weeks of debate, Judge
Lena Hidalgo, concerned that services would be cut to address
a budget deficit that she claims was two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
I'm voting note because the budget is not actually quite
balanced the way a balanced budget.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
Is supposed to be balanced.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The budget passed with supporters saying they write size departments
to close the budget gap.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
This is a rock solid budget that protects core services,
and in fact it's pretty impressive in terms of what
we've been able to do.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The final vote came with continued debate, once again getting
heated between Judge Hidalgo and her colleagues.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
That's their budget and they're already cutting all the children's programs.
It's like spurt for them, including the books that brag
about having. So this spending problem, Sheriff, it belongs to
the three people that are proposing this budget.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The Harris County Sheriff's office is one of the biggest departments,
celebrating the pay parody changes, saying the pay increase makes
them competitive with other agencies.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
My sincere gratitude to Commissioners Garcia Ramsey and Brionez, who she.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Uh she's in a complete meltdown, so she says the
bitchiest things, but she says it is as if she's
about to start crying. So I think she gets herself
into this mood where where she's going to stand up
for herself and she's she's gonna say mean things to them.
But Mike is tell like she's gonna cry. Well, she
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does it, which makes for a real weird vibe. And
then you're reminded, oh wait, this is the top officer
in the county. I think it's the third biggest county
in country. It's bigger than some states, and this is
the person who is ostensibly in charge of it anything. Okay,
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Well we have to assess Rodney if he put her
there and gave her any ability to do anything when
he's not around. I mean, this is it'd be sad
if it wasn't so funny. It's Tracy Bird.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Hey, y'all, if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon
crawl and listen to the tsar of Talk my buddy
Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Forty five years ago today, John BONHAMBALLA be surprising with
that much money, fame, popularity on the table that they
just kind of go away. Usually usually a band can
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patch it up, plug someone in there, keep the machine going.
Surprising that they didn't seem to want to do that
nice and same year You're right, yeah, same year as
ac DC makes the big replacement. And I'm not gonna
say it was an upgrade. I don't think anybody wants
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to hear that, but wow, it took them. They continue
to rise from there. Shall we say?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
So?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Lena had All Go and Rodney Ellis are in the
three They're in the two person minority of the three
to two split. Rodney is having to deal with the
fact that he put Lena in there and now she
is melting down and saying things, and he knows she's
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going to let slip something bad. Well she does. She
lets slip that Rodney redrew the boundaries to get Cactus
Jack Cagle off of Commissioner's Court. And after he redrew
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the boundaries, Leslie Brioni's is not voting the way she's
supposed to vote. Well, let's see here, old girl says. So,
she says, my greatest regret. Now she's looking back over
over her long life and her many lessons learned, and
her big regret is Leslie Brionez, this Democrat who they
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put in on there. Let's see if I can find this.
Here we go, she says, I'm thinking now with this budget,
my top regret was believing somebody's words when they told
me they were committed to community and truth and appointing
that person as a judge, and then redrawing a district
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for that person so they could win, because I believe
they were going to be a careful steward of the
tax dollars, redrawing a district for that person so they
could win. So you you see, they jerrymandered that district
so that a sitting county commissioner, Cactus Jack Kago, one
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day he's representing this district and the next they've redrawn
the whole thing to replace the Republicans with Democrats, and
then of course he lost. They basically just cheated him
out of that seat, right before his very eyes. Her
exact line was, I've named a few, but I now
know which is the top one. It is to have
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appointed someone a civil court judge in twenty nineteen, because
they persuaded me that their number one priority was the
Harris County community. Now you see what's happened is this
Democrat on Missiter's Court, Leslie Brioni's has not voted the
way Lena wanted, which is probably there's probably some people
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in that budget that were gonna get kickbacks, would be
my suspicion. And just like Felicity Pereira, the Elevate Strategies
little contract they were trying to inside deal that got
Lina's top staff all indicted. These folks then after the
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Harris County budget faced significant problems in twenty twenty two
due to the two Republican members of court at the time.
I held my nose and voted to redraw precinct boundaries
because that civil court judge promised she would be a
careful steward of taxpayer dollars. So you held your nose
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and voted for something. So that means you're not proud
of having voted for it. And the reason you had
to hold your nose is because this was fraud and
you knew it, and you were redrawing a boundary over
a political difference, not in some way to supposedly represent
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that community more fairly. It didn't do that at all.
You held your nose and voted to redraw precinct boundaries.
Why because it was the right thing to do. Know
you just told you held your nose. You did that
because quote that civil court judged, promised me she would
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be a careful steward of taxpayer dollars. The end justifies
the means. When these people believe that what they are
doing is righteous, it might be the most the grand
illusion to watch it play out, but they can justify anything.
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They'd have killed you for not taking the vaccine if
they could, if they could have gotten away with it,
and they would convince themselves they were doing us all
a favor. I will remind you Jimmy Kimmel made statements
about hoping the unvaccinated died, about punishing the unvaccinated, that
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these people, when they tell you who they are, listen
very carefully. In the midst of Lena Hidalgo criticizing Leslie
Brione's what she's doing in order to say, hey, I
committed all these crimes for you, I did all these
horrible things for you, she's having to say I did
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all these horrible things. I did all these horrible things
for her that weren't right, they're terrible, they're awful, and
I did them for her. And now she's not being
here for me, That's what she say. She's not being
a careful steward of money for the community. I would
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love to know, and somebody down their nos. I have
not been told yet. I'm going to make it my
business to find out something about this budget has her upset.
And I assure you it's not that there needs to
be sufficient money for the cheerance. That's not what it is.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
There might be a program that supposedly a children's program.
You'll see a lot of fraud. We saw this as
the city of Houston. You'll see a lot of government fraud.
You'll find somebody who comes down after nine to eleven,
there were people who were coming down. They had safety
and security programs they needed funded. And then when green
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becomes a big issue, you'll have folks that get into
these charitable endeavors that they need government money for. And
it's to bring awareness to greeny weeniasm, you know some
version of that, and you know you need to give
us all this money because we're going to bring awareness.
So now government is paid for lobbying or for campaigning
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for a cause of theirs. Let's see, she says, But
today she balanced a budget on the backs of working people,
and she supported mechanisms like a hiring freeze that should
only be used in dire economic times like the Great Recession.
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She joined the far right Republican in funding massive pay raises,
including she joined the far right. You know that one
guy out of five on the court, that's probably she
joined with the powerful far right. Well, Michael Detisho. So
Felicity Pereira, the one woman operation that Lena had ago
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tried to hand an eleven million dollar COVID outreach contract to,
is now running to become an his trustee. And of
course all the Democrat front groups are endorsing her, the
Houston Federation of Teachers, the Gun Grabbing Moms Demand Actions,
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the Harris County Democrat Party, and the AFL CIO. She
is running for District one, which is the Heights area
in North Houston, east of I forty five. Interesting when
you remember that Rodney Ellis, his chief of staff, was
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arrested at the County Commissioner's office for taking bribes. As
the president of the HISD School Board. She had left
there when the heat got too much and gone to
the Houston Community College Board, But her day job was
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working for Rodney Ellis, because that's what they do. The
Sheila Jackson LEAs, Sylvester Turners, Rodney Ellis, They place people
in positions on these boards and things, and then you
call and make a call, and you make a call
and you get this company a contract, and then that
company supports your campaign. And it's a neat little network
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and they keep it all to themselves. It's graft and
corruption and they don't help anybody or do What would
help people is to run government efficiently. But people like this,
the Sheila Jackson Leeds and Sylvester Turners and Rodney Ellis
and the self dealing corrupt grafters. What they will call
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helping people is getting a dedicated something for black people,
you know, an African American museum. They're like, that's really
going to do so them, or they'll they'll do some
little that they'll fund some little Cameroonian festival on the
weekend and make it seem like, you know, this is
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black power, okay. But then none of the government works.
So you've got black people that live in these neighborhoods
and you've got open water lines that are busted, you've
got sidewalks that are busted, you've got streets that are
poor quality, you have insufficient policing, drug dealing, prostitution, and
it's hell to live there. We don't need another festival
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for a Central African Republic. It's not what we need.
That's not what black folks need, but that's what they
get a steady diet of. And then come election time,
we're told I vote for this guy. I remember because
he's black. And you watch these black politicians absolutely squander money,
provide no basic services, and just keep running that you
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need to vote for them because you're black, and if
you're not black, and it, vote for them because you
feel guilty. And this is what inner city government looks
like in this country. This is the absolute complete breakdown
of Detroit. I don't need to go through them all.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So Felicity Preira, the one woman operation that got the
eleven million dollars COVID outreach contract, is now running to
become HISD trustee. How about that? That's that's probably exactly
what we should expect. Ted Cruz in Dallas talking about
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the shooting at the ICE facility there, the third shooting
in Texas directed at ICE or Customs and butter border patrol.
This is the message, it needs to be said. But
it's amazing that we have to say this.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
This needs to stop. Violence is wrong. Politically motivated violence
is wrong. It was two weeks ago today that we
saw a political assassination in Utah that tore the heart
out of much of this country. This is the third
shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP. This must stop.
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To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and
demonizing CBP, stop to every politician demanding that ICE agents
be docksed and calling for people to go after their families.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Stop.
Speaker 11 (21:42):
This has very real consequences. Look in America, we disagree.
That's fine, that's the democratic process. But your political opponents
are not Nazis.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It's true. That's what happens when you call people Nazis.
That's the point of it. That's a dog whistle to
the delusional, the fellow travelers of the nut jobs. And
that's when they take action and they think I'm gonna
do something. I'm gonna impress people. I'm gonna really impressed people.
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So I spoke last night at the it's called Club USA.
It is the tp USA group for Houston, and this
was to celebrate the kids at Stratford High School who
have been working to get a TPUSA chapter since Charlie
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Kirk's assassination and were able to do that, And this
was a great opportunity for the community to come out
and support those kids. But it was also a great
opportunity for the kids to get to interact. You know,
these are fifteen to eighteen year olds and they're coming
into their own I read the other day it was
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an educator somewhere that had been teaching for forty years
and said had never seen a generation of young people
like we're seeing here who are this engaged in civic affairs,
in matters of your nation's excellence. These are fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
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eighteen year olds. They would normally just be gaming or
goofing off or whatever else. The fact that they are
concerned about this is I think, in some ways a
reaction to how far left children's childhoods were, and the
fact that kids are rebelling against what they see as
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this intellectual squalor and slovenliness. Ramon slovenliness is what I
would call it. The Department of Justice seeks to indict
James Comey for lying to Congress stemming from a September thirtieth,
twenty twenty testimony about his handling of the investigation into
Russian interference in the twenty sixteen US presidential election. Under
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federal laws, prosecutors have five years to bring a charge,
with the five year mark occurring next Tuesday. The case
is being handled by US Attorney's Office for Eastern District
of Virginia. Fox News says an unnamed source as DOJ
officials are close to deciding whether to prosecute former FBI
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director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress in September
twenty twenty. There is a grand jury underway looking at
the matter in Virginia. A decision could come any day.
If you don't indict him under this idea that, oh,
you're just going to make him sweat, then they'll do
it again. And that's just it. It is important that
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people who are perceived to be too big to fail,
too powerful to be held to account, don't experience just that.
It's important that the public see that. It's important that
people who say, well, if I did what these people do,
if I did that, I'd be in the hoo's gal
But here he is over here getting away with it
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because we all know nobody wants to punish him, because
it would be awkward to punish him. Look, if you
can indict Donald Trump, you can indicatet Komy for sure.
And I'd like I'd personally like to see him in
the orange jumpsuit. It would it would mean a lot
to me. I don't care if somebody disrespects you, you
can't shoot him. Michael Pass, It's been refoc samurai swords.
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Do you think Chad owns any samurai swords? Is that
Chad specific or you just think people of Japanese descent
have samurai swords? You always passed down. Every family has
like a stamp collection. Okay, I can see that home
invasion suspect is stopped after the victim defends himself with
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a samurai sword. Popo were able to track down the
injured suspect by following his trail of blood. Oh I
like this story. This comes from ABC six in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
It was pretty chaotic scene this morning.
Speaker 12 (26:27):
An alarming scene on Cherry Street in Norristown Tuesday morning.
Neighbors watched as police took a man into custody who
was bleeding profusely after being stabbed with a samurai sword.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
When I came out here, he was just laying on
the ground.
Speaker 12 (26:40):
The cops were dragging home. Police say a thirty five
year old Marcus Armstrong was actually the perpetrator of a
botched robbery and home invasion a few blocks away. Around
eight forty five, Police allege you robbed a man at
gunpoint outside of home on BlackBerry Alley while a female
escaped inside. That's when police say Armstrong barged through the door,
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encountering the woman's roommate, who was armed with a Samurai sword.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
The roommate defended himself, he had that Samurai sword, and
I took a swipe of the suspect.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
Police shared this photo of the weapon. Not something they
see every day, this time time someone fought back, and
the fact that they use a Samurai sword, I can't
tell you the last time we've even seen one. After
being slashed, police say the suspects fled to a home
on Cherry Street, leaving a trail of blood that ultimately
helped police piece together their investigation, but initially alarmed neighbors.
Speaker 13 (27:33):
I was just worry trying to get him some help,
and it.
Speaker 12 (27:36):
Was just it was upset of the investigation revealed this
was a random crime of opportunity. When the suspects saw
the victims exchanging money outside.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Police said both.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
Reported being suspicious of the man moments before the attack.
Just a good faible to be aware of your surroundings and
if you feel something's off, it probably is.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Be around you, be aware of your is and if
you feel something is off, grab your samurai sword. It's
always funny when they try to give a little advice,
but they don't really have any advice, so they say
the most stupid things. So we want to just, you know,
say to the public, head on a swivel, one game
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at a time, take it day by day. We'll make sure,
you know, making good decisions, make sure we're leaning in.
Comedian John Caparulo has a bit about this exact situation.
Speaker 14 (28:38):
You know, there's been a bunch of break into my
neighborhood back in La I get home late at night,
so I was going to buy a gun because it's
it's easier to hide than a sword, which was my
first choice. Wouldn't that be sweet to get mugged and
you had a sword? I mean, really, of all days,
you know, give me your wallet.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
Oh not quite.
Speaker 14 (29:01):
I'm taking is back to the twelfth century, all right,
we're doing it.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
This isn't even the first story we've had this week
about a sword fight. We told you about the meeting
between Pete Butterygig and Tim Waltz to kind of iron
out some of their differences. Do you remember romone, the
time that fellaw used his Legend of Zelda replica sword
to defend himself against his girlfriend's ex husband and Katie.
Speaker 13 (29:25):
A bizarre story overnight in Katie. One man says he
had to grab a sword and a duel with his
girlfriend's a strange husband.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
It was a replica masters sword from Legend of Zelda.
I do anime conventions and stuff truss up in costume,
and so I got it because it's a good replica
and it looks nice, and it just so happens to
be pointed and blated.
Speaker 13 (29:50):
According to Harris County Deputies, Eugene Thompson lives here with
his girlfriend. Thompson says last night they got into an
argument and his girlfriend called her a strange husband who's
stopped by the house around ten. Thompson's girlfriend let the
man inside. He says he ran to the back bedroom
and yelled to the man to leave the house, but
he refused.
Speaker 10 (30:09):
And I heard him heading back to the bedroom where
I was, you know, And so I jumped in the
closet and I grabbed one of my replica swords and
I pulled it out and I stood in the doorway
and he was just coming down the hall at me
while I was yelling, go away, you won't live here,
and he just walked right into the point. So I
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don't know if he thought it was a toy.
Speaker 13 (30:33):
Thompson says he managed to get the man out of
the house and locked the door. He says the man
wasn't giving up and busted through the front door and
ran back into the house. The two men thought over
the sword, and in the scuffle, the estranged husband was
stabbed once in the chest and once in the leg.
Thompson says the man grabbed a flower pot from outside
and smashed it over his head. Deputies arrived and took
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the estranged husband to Hermann Hospital in serious condition. Thompson
was transported to Memorial Herman West Side to get the
gash in his head stitched up.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Ramone said he was able to get security camera footage
from inside the home so as I was saying. Ramone
said he was able to obtain security footage from inside
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the home. Dwike cut my neck. Yeah, I was going
to tell you that he had security Kim put it
from inside the home, but he, uh, he played He
played his bit before it before I was really you know,
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then he cut the DWI cut my neck. You know,
think about it. That boss could have went up. You
get hurt somebody with that. Let's go to Mike. Mike,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, longtime listener. I just wanted to
say a couple of things. As far as Leslie Barona is,
she's not very transparent herself, and I hope that she
doesn't get re elected. I actually work for the county
and I can tell you that a lot of times
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we have to do without as far as equipment and
repairs because there's no money in the budget. And I
want to make sure that it's clear not that I
have anything against gays or lesbians. But she also donated
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I think to a
I want to say it's either a baseball or softball team,
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which I don't think is good spending when it's the
people's money. I mean, it's gotten so bad where sometimes
we can't even get things that we need because our
suppliers refuse to allow us to basically have it on
credit because we're not paying our bills. And that's really
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all I want to say. And you know, I like
to know your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Well, I think you said it all. You said that
she was part of the Adrian Garcia led little coalition.
That you said four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
gay softball, as if the county needs to pay for
to bring these things, it's gonna be so good for
the county that they blow all this money, right, And
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it's not four hundred and fifty, it's four hundred and
sixty nine as a matter of fact, because they have
to rub our faces in it while they're rubbing theirs,
and they want us to pay for their little games.
And then you come back tomorrow and you're losing constables
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because they're going to other departments. Your infrastructure is failing,
but you're recruiting gay softball for whatever reason, which you know,
if you think about it, what's the difference between gay
softball and r or like if you walk up and
they're playing and you're like, oh, that's gay. Is that
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how you know
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael darry Show is on the.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Air, and I'm telling you that if you don't get
away from the green energy scam, your country is going
to fail. That the stall out, waiting for the fall
out all formal note in the Rocky Mountain.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
With time, the planet has a fever. If your baby
has a fever, you go to the doctor. Now say
the evidence is unequivocal. One hundred and fifty years ago
this year was the discovery that CO two traps heat.
That is a principle in physics. It's not a question
(01:01):
of debate. Is like gravity, it exists.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Stop stop.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
People are familiar with that thin blue line that the
astronauts bring back in their pictures from space. That's the
part of the atmosphere that has oxygen, the troposphere, and
it's only five to seven kilometers thick. That's what we're
using as an open sewer. If you could drive a
car straight up in the air at interstate highway speeds,
(01:38):
you get to the top of that blue line in
five minutes and all the greenhouse gas pollution would be
below you. We're still putting one hundred and sixty two
million tons into it every single day, and the accumulated
amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would
be released by six hundred thousand herosima class atomic bombs
exploding every single day on the Earth.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Storm out out, the stall out.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
That's what's boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers and
the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land,
and creating the droughts and melting the ice and raising
the sea level and causing these waves of climate refugees
predicted to reach one billion in this century. Look at
the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from
(02:37):
just a few million refugees. What about a billion? We
would lose our capacity for self governance on this world.
We have to act.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
Storm out, waiting for the fall out, the lucky bout winter.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
While it is true, true that we have this sustainability
revolution underway, and it's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
It has the magnitude of the.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Industrial revolution but the speed of the digital revolution. But
we're still not changing fast enough because it's not just
the scientific community warning us now, it's Mother Nature. Every
night on the TV news is like a nature hike
through the Book of Revelation.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And erased them. Said, the less talent they have, the
more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however,
(03:44):
find other fools who applaud them. Somehow, some way, al
Gore keeps keeping on closer to home. A loss for
lame duck Lena Hidalgo and Rodney Ellis as the Harrison
County Court approves a two point seven billion dollar budget
(04:04):
in a three to two vote. The minority in this
case was Lena Hidalgo and Rodney Ellis, Leslie Brionis, Tom
Ramsey and Adrian Garcia banding together to realize we can
run the county if we just vote together. Then Lena
then begins to whind. She is very upset. She's trying
(04:28):
to do this by that children, and y'all want to
give her all this money for the children. The story
from Oh, here's here's the raw audio of her thank
you for coming down here.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Just say, if we're in a situation where we can't
afford jay web and other essential services, and we really
have a spending problem, that's what it is, yep.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
And right supposed this problem. So what's the solution, colleagues,
if it's your budget, if.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
You're asking, if you're asking the speaker a question, let
the speaker.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
I didn't ask a question. I'm just saying it's their budget,
so they've got the spending problem. I didn't propose this budget.
I did not propose an unbalanced budget that will had
a two hundred million dollar deficit. That's their budget, and
they're already cutting all the children's programs. It's like sport
for them, including the folks that brag about having kids.
(05:23):
So the spending problem, Sheriff, it belongs to the three
people that are proposing this budget. Okay, sorry, I'm next
in the queue to speak.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Sheriff Gonzalez, thank you for being here.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's not nice that it's actually cruel that this woman
who's in a state, a mannicked state, is having an
episode in public out. It's it's not good, that's not
it's just, but it is funnykhou with the story that
(06:06):
Harris County passed the budget, it wasn't the budget that
Lena and Rodney wanted.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Harris County passing its budget after weeks of debate, Judge
Lena Hidalgo, concerned that services would be cut to address
a budget deficit that she claims was two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
I'm voting note because the budget is not actually quite
balanced the way a balanced budget.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
Is supposed to be balanced.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The budget passed with supporters saying they write size departments
to close the budget gap.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
This is a rock solid budget that protects core services,
and in fact it's pretty impressive in terms of what
we've been able to do.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The final vote came with continued debate, once again getting
heated between Judge Hidalgo and her colleagues.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
That's their budget and they're already cutting all the children's programs.
It's like spurt for them, including the books that brag
about having. So this spending problem, Sheriff, it belongs to
the three people that are proposing this budget.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The Harris County Sheriff's office is one of the biggest departments,
celebrating the pay parody changes, saying the pay increase makes
them competitive with other agencies.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
My sincere gratitude to Commissioners Garcia Ramsey and Brionez, who she.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Uh she's in a complete meltdown, so she says the
bitchiest things, but she says it is as if she's
about to start crying. So I think she gets herself
into this mood where where she's going to stand up
for herself and she's she's gonna say mean things to them.
But Mike is tell like she's gonna cry. Well, she
(07:46):
does it, which makes for a real weird vibe. And
then you're reminded, oh wait, this is the top officer
in the county. I think it's the third biggest county
in country. It's bigger than some states, and this is
the person who is ostensibly in charge of it anything. Okay,
(08:10):
Well we have to assess Rodney if he put her
there and gave her any ability to do anything when
he's not around. I mean, this is it'd be sad
if it wasn't so funny. It's Tracy Bird.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Hey, y'all, if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon
crawl and listen to the tsar of Talk my buddy
Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Forty five years ago today, John BONHAMBALLA be surprising with
that much money, fame, popularity on the table that they
just kind of go away. Usually usually a band can
(09:00):
patch it up, plug someone in there, keep the machine going.
Surprising that they didn't seem to want to do that
nice and same year You're right, yeah, same year as
ac DC makes the big replacement. And I'm not gonna
say it was an upgrade. I don't think anybody wants
(09:22):
to hear that, but wow, it took them. They continue
to rise from there. Shall we say?
Speaker 5 (09:30):
So?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Lena had All Go and Rodney Ellis are in the
three They're in the two person minority of the three
to two split. Rodney is having to deal with the
fact that he put Lena in there and now she
is melting down and saying things, and he knows she's
(09:51):
going to let slip something bad. Well she does. She
lets slip that Rodney redrew the boundaries to get Cactus
Jack Cagle off of Commissioner's Court. And after he redrew
(10:12):
the boundaries, Leslie Brioni's is not voting the way she's
supposed to vote. Well, let's see here, old girl says. So,
she says, my greatest regret. Now she's looking back over
over her long life and her many lessons learned, and
her big regret is Leslie Brionez, this Democrat who they
(10:35):
put in on there. Let's see if I can find this.
Here we go, she says, I'm thinking now with this budget,
my top regret was believing somebody's words when they told
me they were committed to community and truth and appointing
that person as a judge, and then redrawing a district
(10:55):
for that person so they could win, because I believe
they were going to be a careful steward of the
tax dollars, redrawing a district for that person so they
could win. So you you see, they jerrymandered that district
so that a sitting county commissioner, Cactus Jack Kago, one
(11:16):
day he's representing this district and the next they've redrawn
the whole thing to replace the Republicans with Democrats, and
then of course he lost. They basically just cheated him
out of that seat, right before his very eyes. Her
exact line was, I've named a few, but I now
know which is the top one. It is to have
(11:39):
appointed someone a civil court judge in twenty nineteen, because
they persuaded me that their number one priority was the
Harris County community. Now you see what's happened is this
Democrat on Missiter's Court, Leslie Brioni's has not voted the
way Lena wanted, which is probably there's probably some people
(12:02):
in that budget that were gonna get kickbacks, would be
my suspicion. And just like Felicity Pereira, the Elevate Strategies
little contract they were trying to inside deal that got
Lina's top staff all indicted. These folks then after the
(12:24):
Harris County budget faced significant problems in twenty twenty two
due to the two Republican members of court at the time.
I held my nose and voted to redraw precinct boundaries
because that civil court judge promised she would be a
careful steward of taxpayer dollars. So you held your nose
(12:48):
and voted for something. So that means you're not proud
of having voted for it. And the reason you had
to hold your nose is because this was fraud and
you knew it, and you were redrawing a boundary over
a political difference, not in some way to supposedly represent
(13:14):
that community more fairly. It didn't do that at all.
You held your nose and voted to redraw precinct boundaries.
Why because it was the right thing to do. Know
you just told you held your nose. You did that
because quote that civil court judged, promised me she would
(13:35):
be a careful steward of taxpayer dollars. The end justifies
the means. When these people believe that what they are
doing is righteous, it might be the most the grand
illusion to watch it play out, but they can justify anything.
(13:56):
They'd have killed you for not taking the vaccine if
they could, if they could have gotten away with it,
and they would convince themselves they were doing us all
a favor. I will remind you Jimmy Kimmel made statements
about hoping the unvaccinated died, about punishing the unvaccinated, that
(14:16):
these people, when they tell you who they are, listen
very carefully. In the midst of Lena Hidalgo criticizing Leslie
Brione's what she's doing in order to say, hey, I
committed all these crimes for you, I did all these
horrible things for you, she's having to say I did
(14:36):
all these horrible things. I did all these horrible things
for her that weren't right, they're terrible, they're awful, and
I did them for her. And now she's not being
here for me, That's what she say. She's not being
a careful steward of money for the community. I would
(15:00):
love to know, and somebody down their nos. I have
not been told yet. I'm going to make it my
business to find out something about this budget has her upset.
And I assure you it's not that there needs to
be sufficient money for the cheerance. That's not what it is.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
There might be a program that supposedly a children's program.
You'll see a lot of fraud. We saw this as
the city of Houston. You'll see a lot of government fraud.
You'll find somebody who comes down after nine to eleven,
there were people who were coming down. They had safety
and security programs they needed funded. And then when green
(15:41):
becomes a big issue, you'll have folks that get into
these charitable endeavors that they need government money for. And
it's to bring awareness to greeny weeniasm, you know some
version of that, and you know you need to give
us all this money because we're going to bring awareness.
So now government is paid for lobbying or for campaigning
(16:02):
for a cause of theirs. Let's see, she says, But
today she balanced a budget on the backs of working people,
and she supported mechanisms like a hiring freeze that should
only be used in dire economic times like the Great Recession.
(16:26):
She joined the far right Republican in funding massive pay raises,
including she joined the far right. You know that one
guy out of five on the court, that's probably she
joined with the powerful far right. Well, Michael Detisho. So
Felicity Pereira, the one woman operation that Lena had ago
(16:50):
tried to hand an eleven million dollar COVID outreach contract to,
is now running to become an his trustee. And of
course all the Democrat front groups are endorsing her, the
Houston Federation of Teachers, the Gun Grabbing Moms Demand Actions,
(17:11):
the Harris County Democrat Party, and the AFL CIO. She
is running for District one, which is the Heights area
in North Houston, east of I forty five. Interesting when
you remember that Rodney Ellis, his chief of staff, was
(17:37):
arrested at the County Commissioner's office for taking bribes. As
the president of the HISD School Board. She had left
there when the heat got too much and gone to
the Houston Community College Board, But her day job was
(18:01):
working for Rodney Ellis, because that's what they do. The
Sheila Jackson LEAs, Sylvester Turners, Rodney Ellis, They place people
in positions on these boards and things, and then you
call and make a call, and you make a call
and you get this company a contract, and then that
company supports your campaign. And it's a neat little network
(18:25):
and they keep it all to themselves. It's graft and
corruption and they don't help anybody or do What would
help people is to run government efficiently. But people like this,
the Sheila Jackson Leeds and Sylvester Turners and Rodney Ellis
and the self dealing corrupt grafters. What they will call
(18:49):
helping people is getting a dedicated something for black people,
you know, an African American museum. They're like, that's really
going to do so them, or they'll they'll do some
little that they'll fund some little Cameroonian festival on the
weekend and make it seem like, you know, this is
(19:10):
black power, okay. But then none of the government works.
So you've got black people that live in these neighborhoods
and you've got open water lines that are busted, you've
got sidewalks that are busted, you've got streets that are
poor quality, you have insufficient policing, drug dealing, prostitution, and
it's hell to live there. We don't need another festival
(19:33):
for a Central African Republic. It's not what we need.
That's not what black folks need, but that's what they
get a steady diet of. And then come election time,
we're told I vote for this guy. I remember because
he's black. And you watch these black politicians absolutely squander money,
provide no basic services, and just keep running that you
(19:56):
need to vote for them because you're black, and if
you're not black, and it, vote for them because you
feel guilty. And this is what inner city government looks
like in this country. This is the absolute complete breakdown
of Detroit. I don't need to go through them all.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So Felicity Preira, the one woman operation that got the
eleven million dollars COVID outreach contract, is now running to
become HISD trustee. How about that? That's that's probably exactly
what we should expect. Ted Cruz in Dallas talking about
(20:38):
the shooting at the ICE facility there, the third shooting
in Texas directed at ICE or Customs and butter border patrol.
This is the message, it needs to be said. But
it's amazing that we have to say this.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
This needs to stop. Violence is wrong. Politically motivated violence
is wrong. It was two weeks ago today that we
saw a political assassination in Utah that tore the heart
out of much of this country. This is the third
shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP. This must stop.
(21:23):
To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and
demonizing CBP, stop to every politician demanding that ICE agents
be docksed and calling for people to go after their families.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Stop.
Speaker 11 (21:42):
This has very real consequences. Look in America, we disagree.
That's fine, that's the democratic process. But your political opponents
are not Nazis.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
It's true. That's what happens when you call people Nazis.
That's the point of it. That's a dog whistle to
the delusional, the fellow travelers of the nut jobs. And
that's when they take action and they think I'm gonna
do something. I'm gonna impress people. I'm gonna really impressed people.
(22:16):
So I spoke last night at the it's called Club USA.
It is the tp USA group for Houston, and this
was to celebrate the kids at Stratford High School who
have been working to get a TPUSA chapter since Charlie
(22:41):
Kirk's assassination and were able to do that, And this
was a great opportunity for the community to come out
and support those kids. But it was also a great
opportunity for the kids to get to interact. You know,
these are fifteen to eighteen year olds and they're coming
into their own I read the other day it was
(23:03):
an educator somewhere that had been teaching for forty years
and said had never seen a generation of young people
like we're seeing here who are this engaged in civic affairs,
in matters of your nation's excellence. These are fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
(23:26):
eighteen year olds. They would normally just be gaming or
goofing off or whatever else. The fact that they are
concerned about this is I think, in some ways a
reaction to how far left children's childhoods were, and the
fact that kids are rebelling against what they see as
(23:46):
this intellectual squalor and slovenliness. Ramon slovenliness is what I
would call it. The Department of Justice seeks to indict
James Comey for lying to Congress stemming from a September thirtieth,
twenty twenty testimony about his handling of the investigation into
Russian interference in the twenty sixteen US presidential election. Under
(24:10):
federal laws, prosecutors have five years to bring a charge,
with the five year mark occurring next Tuesday. The case
is being handled by US Attorney's Office for Eastern District
of Virginia. Fox News says an unnamed source as DOJ
officials are close to deciding whether to prosecute former FBI
(24:31):
director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress in September
twenty twenty. There is a grand jury underway looking at
the matter in Virginia. A decision could come any day.
If you don't indict him under this idea that, oh,
you're just going to make him sweat, then they'll do
it again. And that's just it. It is important that
(24:55):
people who are perceived to be too big to fail,
too powerful to be held to account, don't experience just that.
It's important that the public see that. It's important that
people who say, well, if I did what these people do,
if I did that, I'd be in the hoo's gal
But here he is over here getting away with it
(25:16):
because we all know nobody wants to punish him, because
it would be awkward to punish him. Look, if you
can indict Donald Trump, you can indicatet Komy for sure.
And I'd like I'd personally like to see him in
the orange jumpsuit. It would it would mean a lot
to me. I don't care if somebody disrespects you, you
can't shoot him. Michael Pass, It's been refoc samurai swords.
(25:44):
Do you think Chad owns any samurai swords? Is that
Chad specific or you just think people of Japanese descent
have samurai swords? You always passed down. Every family has
like a stamp collection. Okay, I can see that home
invasion suspect is stopped after the victim defends himself with
(26:09):
a samurai sword. Popo were able to track down the
injured suspect by following his trail of blood. Oh I
like this story. This comes from ABC six in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
It was pretty chaotic scene this morning.
Speaker 12 (26:27):
An alarming scene on Cherry Street in Norristown Tuesday morning.
Neighbors watched as police took a man into custody who
was bleeding profusely after being stabbed with a samurai sword.
Speaker 10 (26:37):
When I came out here, he was just laying on
the ground.
Speaker 12 (26:40):
The cops were dragging home. Police say a thirty five
year old Marcus Armstrong was actually the perpetrator of a
botched robbery and home invasion a few blocks away. Around
eight forty five, Police allege you robbed a man at
gunpoint outside of home on BlackBerry Alley while a female
escaped inside. That's when police say Armstrong barged through the door,
(27:01):
encountering the woman's roommate, who was armed with a Samurai sword.
Speaker 10 (27:05):
The roommate defended himself, he had that Samurai sword, and
I took a swipe of the suspect.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
Police shared this photo of the weapon. Not something they
see every day, this time time someone fought back, and
the fact that they use a Samurai sword, I can't
tell you the last time we've even seen one. After
being slashed, police say the suspects fled to a home
on Cherry Street, leaving a trail of blood that ultimately
helped police piece together their investigation, but initially alarmed neighbors.
Speaker 13 (27:33):
I was just worry trying to get him some help,
and it.
Speaker 12 (27:36):
Was just it was upset of the investigation revealed this
was a random crime of opportunity. When the suspects saw
the victims exchanging money outside.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Police said both.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
Reported being suspicious of the man moments before the attack.
Just a good faible to be aware of your surroundings and
if you feel something's off, it probably is.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Be around you, be aware of your is and if
you feel something is off, grab your samurai sword. It's
always funny when they try to give a little advice,
but they don't really have any advice, so they say
the most stupid things. So we want to just, you know,
say to the public, head on a swivel, one game
(28:19):
at a time, take it day by day. We'll make sure,
you know, making good decisions, make sure we're leaning in.
Comedian John Caparulo has a bit about this exact situation.
Speaker 14 (28:38):
You know, there's been a bunch of break into my
neighborhood back in La I get home late at night,
so I was going to buy a gun because it's
it's easier to hide than a sword, which was my
first choice. Wouldn't that be sweet to get mugged and
you had a sword? I mean, really, of all days,
you know, give me your wallet.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
Oh not quite.
Speaker 14 (29:01):
I'm taking is back to the twelfth century, all right,
we're doing it.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
This isn't even the first story we've had this week
about a sword fight. We told you about the meeting
between Pete Butterygig and Tim Waltz to kind of iron
out some of their differences. Do you remember romone, the
time that fellaw used his Legend of Zelda replica sword
to defend himself against his girlfriend's ex husband and Katie.
Speaker 13 (29:25):
A bizarre story overnight in Katie. One man says he
had to grab a sword and a duel with his
girlfriend's a strange husband.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
It was a replica masters sword from Legend of Zelda.
I do anime conventions and stuff truss up in costume,
and so I got it because it's a good replica
and it looks nice, and it just so happens to
be pointed and blated.
Speaker 13 (29:50):
According to Harris County Deputies, Eugene Thompson lives here with
his girlfriend. Thompson says last night they got into an
argument and his girlfriend called her a strange husband who's
stopped by the house around ten. Thompson's girlfriend let the
man inside. He says he ran to the back bedroom
and yelled to the man to leave the house, but
he refused.
Speaker 10 (30:09):
And I heard him heading back to the bedroom where
I was, you know, And so I jumped in the
closet and I grabbed one of my replica swords and
I pulled it out and I stood in the doorway
and he was just coming down the hall at me
while I was yelling, go away, you won't live here,
and he just walked right into the point. So I
(30:31):
don't know if he thought it was a toy.
Speaker 13 (30:33):
Thompson says he managed to get the man out of
the house and locked the door. He says the man
wasn't giving up and busted through the front door and
ran back into the house. The two men thought over
the sword, and in the scuffle, the estranged husband was
stabbed once in the chest and once in the leg.
Thompson says the man grabbed a flower pot from outside
and smashed it over his head. Deputies arrived and took
(30:54):
the estranged husband to Hermann Hospital in serious condition. Thompson
was transported to Memorial Herman West Side to get the
gash in his head stitched up.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Ramone said he was able to get security camera footage
from inside the home so as I was saying. Ramone
said he was able to obtain security footage from inside
(31:26):
the home. Dwike cut my neck. Yeah, I was going
to tell you that he had security Kim put it
from inside the home, but he, uh, he played He
played his bit before it before I was really you know,
(31:46):
then he cut the DWI cut my neck. You know,
think about it. That boss could have went up. You
get hurt somebody with that. Let's go to Mike. Mike,
you're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Go ahead, Hey, Michael, longtime listener. I just wanted to
say a couple of things. As far as Leslie Barona is,
she's not very transparent herself, and I hope that she
doesn't get re elected. I actually work for the county
and I can tell you that a lot of times
(32:16):
we have to do without as far as equipment and
repairs because there's no money in the budget. And I
want to make sure that it's clear not that I
have anything against gays or lesbians. But she also donated
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I think to a
I want to say it's either a baseball or softball team,
(32:37):
which I don't think is good spending when it's the
people's money. I mean, it's gotten so bad where sometimes
we can't even get things that we need because our
suppliers refuse to allow us to basically have it on
credit because we're not paying our bills. And that's really
(32:57):
all I want to say. And you know, I like
to know your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Well, I think you said it all. You said that
she was part of the Adrian Garcia led little coalition.
That you said four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
gay softball, as if the county needs to pay for
to bring these things, it's gonna be so good for
the county that they blow all this money, right, And
(33:22):
it's not four hundred and fifty, it's four hundred and
sixty nine as a matter of fact, because they have
to rub our faces in it while they're rubbing theirs,
and they want us to pay for their little games.
And then you come back tomorrow and you're losing constables
(33:44):
because they're going to other departments. Your infrastructure is failing,
but you're recruiting gay softball for whatever reason, which you know,
if you think about it, what's the difference between gay
softball and r or like if you walk up and
they're playing and you're like, oh, that's gay. Is that
(34:07):
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